Re: Building the 2021 source release of GnatStudio

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 2021-07-30 13:29, Stéphane Rivière wrote:
>> For scripting an Ada application one needs support of
> 
> I don't see anything that HAC couldn't do, natively or with adaptations,
> both on the side of HAC and GNATStudio, considering the enormous amount
> of time that has been spent to integrate Python into GNATStudio.

It would help to provide a minimal example:
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with Ada.Text_IO;  use Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Scripwriter is
    function Square (X : Float) return Float is
    begin
       return X*X;
    end Square;
    Argument : constant Float := 2.0;
    Result   : Float;
begin
    Load_HAC_Module (...); -- Load custom module making Square callable
    Result := Call_HAC (..., Argument); -- Call script with Argument
    Put_Line
    (  "Square of" & Float'Image (Argument) &
       " =" & Float'Image (Result)
    );
end Scripwriter ;
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The script would be sort of:
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with Custom_Module;
procedure Whatever (X : Float) is
begin
    return Custom_Module.Square (X);
end Whatever;
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The HAC script must take Argument, call Square (accessible via the 
module), return the result of Square (Argument).

> But, imho, this is all history, GNATStudio is scriptable in Python,
> GNATStudio is very difficult to build, Adacore is known to love Python
> and GNAT CE, as a whole, is a wonderful tool. We have to live with it ;)

For AdaCore it is not really much work, they only have to provide a 
module to interface GPS engine. Their customers would decide witch 
script they would use.

What AdaCore *must* do is to remove static linking to Python. The GPS 
user should choose the script language per preferences that would look 
for the corresponding script run-time e.g. Python or HAC or whatever.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de